"Sally and the Magic River" is an inspirational fantasy set in dreams within dreams. In H. Frank Gaertner’s soaring fantasy novel "Sally and the Magic River", a girl manifests her vision of conquering dangerous river rapids in a canoe.... Read More

"The Parent’s Complete Guide" is a practical and thorough guidebook that takes the pressure of perfection off of parents and their children. Encouraging and cheerful, Sherry Rhodes’s "The Parent’s Complete Guide" takes the mystery... Read More

Yodassa Williams’s "The Goddess Twins" is an impressive, commanding novel about black girl magic. A few days before their eighteenth birthday, strange things begin to happen to twins Arden and Aurora. Their mother flies to London for a... Read More

An old octopus weaves a tale of mystery and magic for a gathering of young sea creatures who get caught up in the spell. The book’s beautiful full-color spreads and panels are interspersed with black-and-white line drawings as a white... Read More

The practical guide "Reconnecting with Your Estranged Adult Child" centralizes a topic that’s often mired in shame. Estrangement between parents and children is much more common than is acknowledged. Tina Gilbertson’s book thus... Read More

Two women are drawn together through shared, sensuous experiences of Greek food and motherhood in Georgia Kolias’s "The Feasting Virgin", a sexy novel that evokes the turmoil and pleasure of domestic life. Xeni is thirty-eight, a... Read More

Ashley E. Sweeney’s novelization of the Donner Party fuses history, realism, and luminous prose. Ada is nineteen when she’s orphaned just after her wagon caravan leaves Missouri for California. Instead of turning back, Ada joins the... Read More

Whatever wilds you conquer or quests you undertake, the most complicated excavations are those that are internal; so a team of adventurers learns in Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s breathless and heartbreaking novel, "A Hundred Million Years... Read More